Cybersecurity Services in Georgia
Since 2018, ransomware in Georgia has shut a fuel pipeline, disabled City of Atlanta systems and taken down services in two of the state's largest counties. NetSys protects Georgia businesses against that playbook with managed detection and response on every device, locked-down Microsoft 365 sign-ins, filtered email and backups attackers cannot delete, run remotely by engineers in Brooklyn.
The short answer
NetSys provides cybersecurity services to Georgia organizations: ThreatDown managed detection and response on every computer and server, multifactor authentication and Entra ID Conditional Access for Microsoft 365, Barracuda email protection, Rapid7 vulnerability scanning, KnowBe4 phishing training, Keeper password management and immutable backups that are restored on a schedule. Everything is delivered remotely; NetSys has no Georgia office and sends no engineers on site, and a compromised laptop is isolated over the network within minutes. Monitoring runs 24/7, engineers staff the help desk 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern, the ongoing service is priced per user per month, and the first step can be our free external penetration test.
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How cybersecurity is delivered across Georgia
Security work does not need a technician in the room, which is why we can do it well from Brooklyn for an office in Savannah, Augusta or Gainesville. The ThreatDown agent goes onto every endpoint through NinjaOne in the first week, Microsoft 365 is hardened through its admin portals, and firewall logs and alerts report to cloud consoles we watch. When ThreatDown flags a device, the response team can cut it off from the network while keeping it reachable for our engineers, and in the same few minutes we can revoke the user's sessions and reset credentials in Entra ID. Replacement hardware ships configured. NetSys does not send engineers on site anywhere in Georgia, and the proposal states that plainly. Monitoring runs 24/7 from Brooklyn, and so does emergency service. Our staffed help-desk hours are 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern time, seven days a week. The proposal states severe-incident escalation, authorized remediation and any other after-hours work.
Georgia attacks that show how intruders get in
The incidents Georgia business owners remember began with ordinary access rather than exotic exploits. CISA's 2018 advisory on SamSam, the ransomware used against the City of Atlanta that March, said its operators got in through Remote Desktop Protocol with brute-forced or stolen logins. Colonial Pipeline, based in Alpharetta, shut down its pipeline operations after ransomware in May 2021. Fulton County lost phones, court e-filing and online property records to LockBit in January 2024, and Cobb County took court records and its jail database offline after intruders were found on its servers in March 2025. In February 2026 Marietta could not accept online business license payments because ransomware hit BridgePay, a payment gateway the city relied on. The pattern repeats: exposed remote access, reused passwords, missing multifactor authentication and too much trust placed in a single vendor.
The controls we deploy and the attack each one stops
Each control on a NetSys security plan answers a specific technique. Remote Desktop is never exposed to the internet; staff reach internal systems through Entra ID with Conditional Access, which blocks sign-ins from unmanaged devices and unexpected countries. Multifactor authentication covers email, VPN, payroll, banking and every administrator account, with phishing-resistant methods for admins. ThreatDown watches process behavior on every endpoint, so encryption activity at 2 a.m. gets a machine isolated rather than a ticket opened the next morning. Barracuda inspects links and attachments and flags lookalike domains, which matters for the invoice and wire-change fraud that targets real estate, construction and law firms. Rapid7 InsightVM scans for unpatched services every month, Keeper replaces the shared spreadsheet of passwords, and Datto or Veeam backups are immutable and copied off the premises, so even an attacker holding admin rights cannot delete them.
What Georgia law requires after a breach
Georgia's breach statute, O.C.G.A. § 10-1-912, is narrower than most. It is written for information brokers, meaning companies that compile personal information for fees mainly to furnish it to unaffiliated third parties, and for state and local government data collectors, including public universities. Those entities must notify affected Georgia residents in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, and must tell the nationwide consumer reporting agencies when more than 10,000 residents are notified at one time. A company that maintains such data on their behalf, which can include IT, software and payroll vendors working for Georgia agencies, must notify them within 24 hours of discovering a breach. Customers' home-state laws may still apply. This is general information, not legal advice.
Payments, health care and defense work: the rules on top
Most Georgia businesses that need formal security controls get them from an industry rule rather than state law. Georgia's Department of Banking and Finance says about 70% of all U.S. payment transactions flow through companies with operations in the state, so PCI DSS reaches processors, software firms and merchants across metro Atlanta and beyond. Medical and dental practices answer to the HIPAA Security Rule's risk analysis, access control and audit requirements; the update HHS proposed in January 2025 is still only a proposal. Tax preparers and many lenders fall under the FTC Safeguards Rule, which since May 2024 has required notice to the FTC within 30 days of discovering an event involving 500 or more consumers. Defense suppliers around Marietta and near Fort Gordon, home of the Army's Cyber Center of Excellence, work under DFARS 252.204-7012 and NIST SP 800-171. We map controls to whichever rule applies and keep the evidence.
Cybersecurity in Georgia: what NetSys delivers
Watch and respond
- ThreatDown MDR and EDR on every device, with a 24/7 team that isolates and investigates rather than emails
- Rapid7 InsightIDR or Microsoft Sentinel collecting identity, email, endpoint and firewall logs so an intrusion is visible in one place
Harden the tenant and the people
- Microsoft Defender for Business, Entra ID Conditional Access and phishing-resistant sign-in for finance staff
- Legacy authentication off, dormant accounts closed, forwarding rules and consent grants reviewed monthly
Measure and recover
- Rapid7 InsightVM scans of the internal and external footprint, with a monthly fix list
- Managed firewall with intrusion prevention, segmentation and vendor access that is logged and switched off when the work ends
Firewall, antivirus and maintenance for a five-person office
A five-person office needed the basics done properly rather than an enterprise stack. NetSys replaced the internet provider's router with a business-grade firewall configured with sensible rules, secure remote access and logging, deployed managed antivirus on every machine with updates and alerts handled centrally, and put patching, backup checks and health reviews on a schedule. The agreement covers what the office needs and nothing it does not, month to month. No outcome figures were measured for publication.
Cybersecurity work for other clients
- Insurance
Regional title insurance company
Barracuda email protection for 85 users, phishing simulations, employee security training, and MFA deployment.
Security Awareness & Phishing TrainingIT for Insurance Agencies and Brokers
Client names are withheld. These examples were chosen for the work involved, not for where the client is, so none is presented as a Georgia client.
What cybersecurity costs in Georgia
Cybersecurity is priced per user per month when it runs as an ongoing service, and per project for an assessment or a remediation. What moves the number: how many devices and identities are in scope, how much incident remediation and recovery is needed beyond the monitoring and authorized MDR actions in scope, which compliance standard the evidence has to satisfy, and whether the Microsoft 365 tenant is already on Business Premium or the security tooling comes from us. The free external penetration test costs nothing and runs remotely before any of that. Our managed IT pricing page explains how the fee is built.
Who this fits, and who it does not
Best fit: businesses with enough people, money movement or regulated data that a breach would hurt, and no security team of their own: professional practices, healthcare groups, importers, financial firms, nonprofits and agencies holding client credentials. Companies with an internal IT person fit as a co-managed arrangement.
Read next
Industry pages: IT for Logistics & Transportation · IT for Manufacturing
Terms used on this page: Managed Detection and Response (MDR) · Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) · Conditional Access
Guides: MDR versus antivirus for a small business · the Conditional Access policies to turn on first
Related pages
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Cybersecurity in Georgia: FAQs
How does cybersecurity work for Georgia organizations?
It runs remotely from the first scan to incident response. In week one we deploy ThreatDown and the NinjaOne agent, review Microsoft 365 sign-in logs and mailbox rules for signs of an existing compromise, and run a Rapid7 scan of your internet-facing services. Over the next few weeks Conditional Access, Barracuda filtering, Keeper and immutable backups go in, followed by KnowBe4 training for staff. From then on alerts reach an analyst around the clock, and the help desk is staffed from 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern. NetSys does not travel to Georgia offices; a contained device is wiped and rebuilt remotely through Intune.
How much do cybersecurity services cost in Georgia?
The ongoing service is priced per user per month after a short assessment, and one-time projects, such as cleaning up an old Active Directory, building a Conditional Access baseline or a compliance gap assessment, are quoted after scoping. Cost rises with the number of devices and identities, the servers and cloud tenants in scope, the evidence a regulator, insurer or enterprise customer expects, and whether your Microsoft 365 plan already includes Business Premium security features. Those variables differ too much between a five-person office in Athens and a 200-person distributor near Savannah for a published price to mean anything. The external penetration test is free.
What is the free external penetration test?
It is a remote test of what your business exposes to the internet, run within a scope we agree in writing first: public IP addresses, the firewall, VPN and remote access portals, and email and web services. Our engineers look for open Remote Desktop, unpatched VPN appliances, default credentials and misconfigured services, the same openings used against Georgia governments since 2018. You receive a written report with each finding ranked by risk and paired with its fix. There is no charge and no obligation, and it is the only free offer NetSys makes; internal testing and broader assessments are quoted projects.
Will this help with our cyber insurance application?
Usually, yes. Carriers and brokers writing Georgia policies ask the same core questions: is multifactor authentication enforced on email, remote access and admin accounts; is there endpoint detection and response with someone watching it; are backups offline or immutable and tested; is phishing training documented; and how quickly are critical patches applied. With ThreatDown MDR, Conditional Access, immutable Datto or Veeam backups, KnowBe4 records and NinjaOne patch reports in place, you can answer each one truthfully and attach evidence. Our cyber insurance readiness page lists the controls insurers check most often.
We already have Microsoft Defender. Do we need managed detection and response?
Defender for Business is a capable tool, and on some plans we run it alongside ThreatDown. The gap is rarely the software; it is who reads the alerts. A detection at 2 a.m. on a Saturday does little good if the next person to look at it arrives on Monday. Managed detection and response adds analysts who investigate around the clock and isolate a machine when its behavior looks like ransomware, plus our engineers, who follow up on accounts, mailbox rules and backups. For most small and midsize Georgia businesses, that human coverage is what makes the tools effective.
See what an attacker sees before they do.
The free assessment is a remote external penetration test, limited to the information available to NetSys and the external scope we agree with you. Internal reviews and ongoing security management are scoped separately.